Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Ms Caren Gallagher:

Three hundred and seven thousand. By the end of quarter 4 of 2020, this figure had dropped to 297,837 so we can see the contraction in the number of tenancies. We looked at landlord exits in the survey we carried out and spoke to a number of former landlords to establish their reasons for leaving the sector. We set out the number of reasons, which is picked up in a further study we are undertaking this year to inform policy-----